IDENTILIN$$  F022O21 Eng poet f.9\pp.75-77\GL\mf\P:EWS\o\6-5-92\C:JSC
022.O21.0HE  Elegie.|
022.O21.001  To make the doubt cleare that no woman's true
022.O21.002  was it my fate; to proue it strong in you?
022.O21.003  thought I but one had breathed purest aire?
022.O21.004  and must she needs be false; because shee's faire?
022.O21.005  Is it y%5r%6 beautyes worke; or of your truth;
022.O21.006  or y%5r%6 p%Pfection; not to Study truth
022.O21.007  or thinke you heauen is deafe; or hath no eyes;
022.O21.008  or those she hath; smile at y%5r%6 periuryes;
022.O21.009  are vowes so cheate, w%5t%6 women or the matter
022.O21.010  where of they ar made; that they ar writt in water
022.O21.011  or blowne a way w%5th%6 wind; or doth three breath
022.O21.012  both hott and cold; at once make life and death
022.O21.013  who could haue thought; so many accents sweete
022.O21.014  form'd into words, so many sighs should meete.
022.O21.015  as from o%5r%6 harts; so many oathes and teares
022.O21.016  Sprinkled among; (all sweeter by o%5r%6 feares)
022.O21.017  and the diuine impressio%M of stolne kisses
022.O21.018  (y%5t%6 seald the rest) should now proue empty blisses;
022.O21.019  did y%5u%6 draw bonds to forfeit; signe to breake
022.O21.020  or must wee read you quite fro%M w%5t%6: you speake. [CW:om]
022.O21.021  and find the trueth out the wrong way; or must [76]
022.O21.022  hee first desire you false would haue y%5u%6 iust
022.O21.023  oh I p%Pphane, though most of wome%M bee
022.O21.024  this kind of beast; my thought shall except thee
022.O21.025  my dearest loued; ffroward Iealousy;
022.O21.026  w%5th%6 Circumstance might vrge thy Constancy
022.O21.027  sooner Ile thinke the sunne will cease to cheare
022.O21.028  the teeming earth; and y%5t%6 forgett to beare
022.O21.029  sooner the riuers will runn backe; or thames
022.O21.030  w%5th%6 ribs of Ice in Iune will bind her streames
022.O21.031  or nature by whose strength; the world indures
022.O21.032  would change her course before you alter youres
022.O21.033  But oh that treacherous beast to whome weak y%5u%6
022.O21.034  did trust o%5r%6 counsels; whome wee both may rew
022.O21.035  hauing his falshood found too late; 'twas hee
022.O21.036  Y%5t%6 made me cast you guilty; and you mee;
022.O21.037  Whil'st hee blacke wretch betray'd each simple word
022.O21.038  wee spake vnto the cunning of a third.
022.O21.039  curst may hee bee that so o%5r%6 loue hath slaine
022.O21.040  and wander on the earth as wretched Caine
022.O21.041  Wretched as hee; & not deserue least pitty
022.O21.042  in plauging him lett misery bee witty
022.O21.043  but all eyes shun him & hee shun each eye
022.O21.044  till he be noysome as his %Ymiserye%Zinfamye,
022.O21.045  may he w%5th%6out remorse deny god thrice
022.O21.046  and not bee trusted more on%Ye%Z his soules price.| [CW:om]
022.O21.047  And after all these torments when hee dyes [77]
022.O21.048  may wolues teare out his heart; Vulturs his eyes
022.O21.049  Swine eat his bowells; and his false tongue
022.O21.050  y%5t%6 vtterd all; bee to some rauen flunge
022.O21.051  & lett his Carion Corse be a longer feast
022.O21.052  to the kings doggs then any other %Yfeast%Zbeast
022.O21.053  Now I haue Curst; let vs o%5r%6 loue reuiue.
022.O21.054  in mee the flame was neuer more a liue.  
022.O21.055  I could beginn againe to court and prayse
022.O21.056  and in that pleasure, lengthen the short dayes
022.O21.057  of my liues lease; like painters that doe take
022.O21.058  delight not in made worke; but whiles they make;
022.O21.059  I could renue those times, when first I saw
022.O21.060  loue in y%5r%6 eyes that gaue my tongue y%5e%6 law
022.O21.061  to like what you liked; & at maskes and playes
022.O21.062  Commend the selfe same actors; the same wayes
022.O21.063  aske how y%5u%6 did; and often: w%5th%6 intent
022.O21.064  of being officious; bee impertinent.
022.O21.065  all w%5c%6 wer such selfe pastimes; as in these
022.O21.066  loue was as subtilly catch; as a disease
022.O21.067  But being got is in a treasure sweete
022.O21.068  w%5c%6 to defend is harder then to gett;
022.O21.069  and ought not bee p%Pphan'd, on eyther part
022.O21.070  for though tis got by chance, tis kept by art.
022.O21.0SS  ffinis|
022.O21.0$$  %1No ind; ll.41 & 42 in reverse order in ms [also in Y3].%2